In the last episode (Feb 27), Wojciech Puchar said: >> one can easily write: >> >> find . -name '*.ogg' | \ >> while read file ; do \ >> blah "${file}" >> done >> >> xargs(1) is another popular tool for processing large argument lists: >> >> find -name '*.ogg' | xargs blah > > unless program "blah" starts slowly, and it's better to give it 2000 > params at once. > > but i've asked to be sure what is actual limit, and used xargs -n > 2000 to do the rest.
That's less than xargs's default of 5000 :) The xargs manpage explains it all. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"